Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
It doesn't change the ultimate result for locals: their country is becomoing more unsafe with the advent of immigrants whatever explanation is behind their behavior.
Not anymore that it would with a million of other people.

BUT: when they try to be united with their families, the latter will have to go through the same hardships involving camps, smugglers, corrupt officials and so on. Or do you mean Germany will PAY to ship the rest of the family in?
No, because once he's settled in and legally allowed to live and work in Germany, he can arrange for his family to come the normal way, a boat or a plane and he will have the financial means to accomplish it.
How does a peasant from a backward village know the state of things all over the Eastern hemisphere? And it seems that any of those places are better than Syria, so he is supposed to dash for the first safer corner, not to speculate on picking the choiciest nook.
Some of them do. The rest is seeing what those who do know choose as their destination and follow suit.

And, more importantly, not everybody is moving to Europe. There's three times more refugees in Turkey than in all of Europe combined.